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The First International Syndicalist Congress was a meeting of European and Latin American syndicalist organizations at Holborn Town Hall in London that began on this day in 1913. The congress was attended by 38 delegates representing 65 organizations from Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cuba, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, with a total membership between 220,000 and 250,000.

Despite being marked by heated disagreements over both tactics and principles, the Congress succeeded in creating the International Syndicalist Information Bureau as a vehicle of exchange and solidarity between the various organizations, and the "Bulletin international du mouvement syndicaliste" as a means of communication. It would be viewed as a success by almost all who participated.

The First International Congress of Revolutionary Trade Unions (July 3rd to 19th 1921)

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[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Still can't get over that elementary school posting about ice cream day and the line "Students are not permitted to buy ice cream for a friend."

It's like a story out of a childrens' book where all the little kids go buy ice cream but one of them can't afford it so his friends buy it for him and everyone is happy.

But we're so far down the hyper-individualist rabbit hole that this very basic "sharing is caring" moral has vanished entirely, our culture is so rotten that "NO HANDOUTS, YOU'RE NOT ENTITLED TO ANYTHING, FUCK YOU" takes precedence over basic empathy for freaking elementary schoolers.

Imagine being a teacher and having a little 6-year-old look up at you, asking if he can also have some ice cream like everyone else, and telling him "No." The thought of that makes me so fucking angry.

[-] Graphite22@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You're not alone there. I hate it with every fiber of my being.

I still to this day have troubles when it comes to picking out, purchasing and eating food in public settings thanks to the sheer amount of anxiety that was inflicted on me as a child. The pitying, judgemental eyes glancing back at me as the lunch lady says I have too much food for the "free lunch". Or even worse, now that I picked out extra, I have to pay "normal lunch price" plus the extra fee that I tacked on because I had the audacity to want a little extra slop. There was a "premium" lunch and snack concession line in the cafeteria for all the "better" treats, drinks and a bunch of random things you could bring back to your table to share with your friends. Good luck trying to convince the people running the concession line that you're not scamming them by "pretending to have a free or reduced lunch" tag on your account. All because you wanted something a little sweeter to make the day easier.

This was a high school cafeteria. I can't even understand how you could apply this way of thinking all the way down to the elementary schools. It's just heartless and I want to write something angry and edgy at the end of this sentence to justify the rage I feel.

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[-] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

In bad country children are indoctrinated to not care about human life

[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

Did you know that in American, there is no word for "kindness"? This is so sad, ChatGPT play Country Roads

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[-] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

Imagine being a teacher and having a little 6-year-old look up at you, asking if he can also have some ice cream like everyone else, and telling him "No."

i can't imagine being so out of touch with my basic humanity to do something so pointlessly cruel to a child

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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[-] Comp4@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago
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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago
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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago

Oh my bad guys I didn't realize the Nazi soldier who was in the SS had a problematic past.

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[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago

Comrades, this is not a bit or a joke - I had a surprise date last night that I ended with Yellow Parenti.

I am the one true leftist.

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[-] RollaD20@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's incredible how quickly chauvinism pops up when arguing with radlibs about domestic politics.

'Can't criticize the the-democrat because that helps russia!'

I'm so sick of having to talk about china or russia when discussing issues that aren't remotely related. I'm so sick of being called a putin bot or whatever because I am sick of American empire and its violence. I'm so sick of needing to find the "civil, proper" way to criticize the fact that the canadian parliament applauded a literal nazi.

debord-tired I am tired

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[-] RION@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

8yo me: the government should just print more money

16yo me: national economies are complex beasts, and simply printing money to sidestep budgetary shortfalls may have dangerous and far-reaching ramifications

23yo me: the government should just print more money

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[-] President_Obama@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Women in E-sports: they're still freeze-gamers

Gamer Legion has terminated with immediate effect its contract with Chloe "KittyTM" Geaney, after it was revealed that KittyTM has been using racial slurs to insult several players during FaceIT games

Somehow other bigoted gamers managed to make it about her being trans gamer-gulag

[-] Moss@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

I've been feeling really bad about my body recently because I'm overweight, and feeling bad just makes me want to eat food for comfort. How do I break out of this

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[-] DoghouseCharlie@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

I like BG3, but I think the reason it gets so much praise is in part because people forgot what even a halfway competently put together game looks like. Compared to BG3, Starfield feels like one of those fake games you'd see characters on TV playing in the background.

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[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

not a syndicalist, but I gotta concede that the name is really cool

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

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[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

ask everyone you know for money lt-dbyf-duboisover-your-head wow, a complex story about the ennui of stagnation and choosing to move forward despite it all

[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

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[-] PaX@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

drug useSend good vibes, I just ate a psychedelic chemical <3

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[-] President_Obama@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

CW: neonazi mentioned, masturbation mentionedMostly posting this for the wild CW lol

I don’t masturbate to anime characters. I dress up like them and guys masturbate to me.

That's a quote from Lauren Southern!

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[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That which exists outside of my mouth exists without my consent

kirby-wave

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[-] Goblin@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

You know that goth girl you had a crush on in high school? She fucking hated you. And for good reason.

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

Biden's dogs keep biting secret service officers lol

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

Miyazaki shaved the beard kitty-cri-screm

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

It's funny when you read a meme on Hexbear and you can tell it's been crossposted from lemmygrad without looking

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

I am incredibly sick of rural amerikkans popping out of the woodwork to tell me all about how they absolutely need their car for their 300 mile daily commute whenever I mention bicycles or micromobility.

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[-] President_Obama@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

Instead of "good post" imma say "good boy, you did such a good job posting headpat"

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[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

The west digging up war heros who fought against Russia in WWII

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago
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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

Just had my first exam of the semester

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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Bit idea: If libs come here doing their anti-tankie stuff just keep replying "OK Adolf" because it annoys the shit out of them lmao.

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

Western Marxists blaming Soviet excesses on Engels and trying to excise him from the Marxist canon is like the funniest fucking shit

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[-] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

I cried listening to an album today. It was remastered, so the tinge of new on it plunged itself deep into my heart and pulled me all the way back from like 20 years ago, aligning me to everyone I used to be since it entered into my life. Feeling both my past hopefulness and today’s depair fight, and somehow my hopefulness won out.

[-] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

My younger self would be stoked as hell about me. I should be nicer to myself

[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

"Let he who is without time served in the Waffen SS cast the first stone"

  • Liberal Jesus, 2023
[-] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

I used to LOVE space. Facts about planets, about missions, the thin veneer of cooperation we told ourselves about when working with the USSR and then Russia.

Now it seems like Outer Orbit Life will never be possible. Like Gundam’s notion that it’ll lead to wars is truer by the day, that scifi classifying it as a libertarian hellscape where people are worked to death for profits instead of for the betterment for all in the shining blue pearl.

Space used to hold an optimism for me. Now they put a ticketbooth in front of it, abandoned it and put a 15 ft fence around the very idea.

It is easier to imagine abandoning the earth for all the evils we brought upon it, but as time goes on you only get to imagine 7 people on that ship. The rest left to die. So far from that turn-of-the-century optimism we were so full of.

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[-] Comp4@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The plan was to see my buddy one more time this year. Gonna see him twice now. He lives in a different city so its a bit of a hassle but I love to meet him IRL we usually only game or talk online. gaddafi-happy

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

I have a confession: I've never played any pokemon games despite owning a GBA as a kid

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